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Research Toolkit
Introduction
Welcome!
This toolkit is designed to help you focus on a questioning approach to research. Each section links to activities and resources that will help you build your research skills.
Click on a tab in this guide to get started:
Define Topic – Select a topic. List what you know about your topic – who, what, when, where, why, and how. What would you like to find out about your topic?
Devise Strategy – List as many synonyms and related key words as possible. Use the list of words to create multiple combinations with the word AND
Search Sources – Use your search strategy to locate more in-depth information in books, find information on specific aspects of your topic in periodical articles
Evaluate Sources – Scholarly v. popular articles
Write and Cite – Annotated bibliography, APA citations, and evaluation of the process
Notes for faculty
This particular guide focuses on interdisciplinary sources/general sources, but librarians and professors can customize this guide to a subject area. To ask for a customized guide for your class, contact your library liaison. To find out who your library liaison is, go here:
http://www.library.unt.edu/about/library-liaisons/department-liaison-list
NOTE: The Research Toolkit is also available through various Blackboard Vista modules in online courses and can be easily added to your course.
Permission granted: Celita DeArmond, San Antonio College Library
